New Forum Section - The Character Clinic
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 10:46 am
I have seen several people make their character die in thread and then announce it in the absence thread.
We could reserve the absence thread for temporary absences and make a new separate forum section named The Character Clinic (or similar) where people can post when they are starting to feel unhappy about their characters for some reason or another.
There could be a subsection named The Character Hospital, for threads about "character maladies" like Concept issues and Depressive storyline or Lost connection and other character related troubles. This could be where people can feel free to post in order to try to get discussion and help from the community when it feels like the character has "wrecked". I think people could benefit from getting to discuss a bit without commitments. It can be hard to go on the LFC and look for others if the concept or storyline feels wobbly. The "hospital" could be a place where it's possible to express troubles with the PC and get viewpoints and OOC discussion in a relaxed way, without anybody needing to feel committed to a whole lot of things.
There could also be a subsection named The Character Cemetary, where people can write a memory post about those characters they didn't find it enough to just retire, but felt they wanted to kill in thread in order to make room for something new. This would be only be for writing about characters and what you learnt by writing them. It's definitely not meant as a place for "final words" from OOC players who leave the website.
Also, The Character Clinic doesn't need to be grimdark. There could be a subsection name The Newborn Department, where people can write short outlines of character ideas (Max five sentences) and gauge the communities interest before they make a whole CS. I think of it as a place for pure brainstorm, where ideas can be shared.
We could reserve the absence thread for temporary absences and make a new separate forum section named The Character Clinic (or similar) where people can post when they are starting to feel unhappy about their characters for some reason or another.
There could be a subsection named The Character Hospital, for threads about "character maladies" like Concept issues and Depressive storyline or Lost connection and other character related troubles. This could be where people can feel free to post in order to try to get discussion and help from the community when it feels like the character has "wrecked". I think people could benefit from getting to discuss a bit without commitments. It can be hard to go on the LFC and look for others if the concept or storyline feels wobbly. The "hospital" could be a place where it's possible to express troubles with the PC and get viewpoints and OOC discussion in a relaxed way, without anybody needing to feel committed to a whole lot of things.
There could also be a subsection named The Character Cemetary, where people can write a memory post about those characters they didn't find it enough to just retire, but felt they wanted to kill in thread in order to make room for something new. This would be only be for writing about characters and what you learnt by writing them. It's definitely not meant as a place for "final words" from OOC players who leave the website.
Also, The Character Clinic doesn't need to be grimdark. There could be a subsection name The Newborn Department, where people can write short outlines of character ideas (Max five sentences) and gauge the communities interest before they make a whole CS. I think of it as a place for pure brainstorm, where ideas can be shared.
